Fire-Breathing Labyrinth Walking . . .
Do NOT try this at home !
Fire-Breathing Labyrinth Walking . . .
Do NOT try this at home !
Fire Dancing in The Labyrinth !
The surface of this wading pool in Bellevue Square Park has reached its end of life.
No matter how many times I repaint my Labyrinth, no combination of colours can overcome the shortcomings of the canvas.
Labyrinth remains walkable, yet doing so isn’t as much fun as when I first painted it . . .
There are five multi-coloured Classic Labyrinths I first painted on Easter Sunday 2009 along the pathway beside the ice hockey rink in the north-east corner of Trinity-Bellwoods Park, Toronto.
The five Labyrinths are 3, 7, 3, 11 and 3 Lanes respectively.
Together,
They comprise what I call The “Trinity-Bellwoods Park Labyrinth Walk”.
This is the 7 Lane Classic Labyrinth at the south end of The Walk . . .
The Heavyweights Brass Band performing atop the Labyrinth I painted on Kensington Avenue just south of Fitzroy Terrace during the Hallowe’en edition of Pedestrian Sunday in Kensington Market, Toronto. . .
Fire Breathing !
Literally in The Labyrinth !
Whoops !
Skateboarders have told me the Labyrinth’s lines I paint help them with situation awareness when boarding round and round the Wading Pool . . .
“Toronto councillors should approve new island park hedge maze”
Thursday June 20 2013
“There’s no reason for city councillors to hedge their bets in considering a new shrubbery maze proposed for Toronto Island Park.
It won’t cost the city anything to build thanks to the intervention of William Meany,
An entrepreneur offering to cover the $200,000 cost in exchange for naming rights.
And money to maintain it is already in the 2013 budget.
The new cedar hedge Labyrinth would replace an old one that had baffled kids and adults on Centre Island for almost 50 years before being uprooted in 2012.
That earlier maze of eastern cedars fell victim to lack of sunlight after being literally overshadowed by surrounding trees.
It was deemed not worth maintaining.
In light of Meany’s amazing generosity,
The city’s parks committee on Monday should not hesitate to support a new Labyrinth.
It would be puzzling,
Indeed,
If councillors failed to find their way to that obvious solution.”
TO's labyrinth master @HiMYSYeD speaks to Parks & Environment cmt today. I see kids walking his labyrinths at Christie Pits daily.
— Mike Layton (@m_layton) January 16, 2014
“Oops I Wiin” markered upon one of the arcs of the Labyrinth I painted in the Wading Pool in Bellevue Square Park in Kensington Market . . .
They won hunh?
…Sure.
Why not.
Happy Walking!
“I walk along the beach last night, spot a labyrinth I had not noticed before.
A man is placing stones, so I ask him about it – fixing it now, been there for months, he creates them all over the city in unexpected locales.
He shares his story and his energy, that which i feel walking the labyrinth as well – came upon it at the perfect time in the perfect place.”